CHICAGO — Eight school buses were stolen from the Far South Side of Chicago overnight and driven to a salvage yard, where they were cut apart and shredded into a two-story pile of scrap, police said Friday.

The name of the Sunrise Bus company could be seen among the shards of metal at SRV Metal Scrapper, police said. Three people were taken into custody.

The 40-foot-long buses, capable of seating 75 people, were stolen sometime overnight from the bus company’s yard and were not discovered missing until Friday morning, police said.

The buses were all equipped with GPS tracking devices, and police were able to track “their entire movement” to the scrap yard, police said.